Kevin

As far as aid to Israel...... https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4274682-where-gop-speaker-nominee-mike-johnson-stands-on-ukraine-israel/ “[T]he United States unequivocally stands with Israel and we will provide the support and resources necessary to rid the Middle East and the world of hamas’ terrorist regime,” Johnson said in a recent statement to Nexstar station KTAL. “Please join us in continued prayers for our friends and our allies in Israel.” In a post on X last Thursday, Johnson appeared to say Biden’s recent Oval Office speech “only confirms the urgent need for the U.S. to act in support of our great ally, Israel, as they fight against Hamas terrorists.”

So Trump pushed for a vaccine that Biden is trying to take credit for but many on the right are critical of the vaccine and won’t take it because they say it’s worthless. Hmm sounds like a Trump product. People have already gone over the border wall or cut through it. Or certain gates have had to be left open due to monsoonal weather. Not against it but it’s not a cure all solution. But Trump as you know never got that check from Mexico. Should never even mentioned it. I just wish Trump could have replaced Obamacare like he promised along with giving us infrastructure, paying off the national debt (haha), etc. I know it was difficult with Republicans controlling the House and Senate for his first two years in office. Not a failure at all. But the middle class did get temporary tax cuts which will expire in the next few years. That’s nice. Inflation was coming no matter who was president. Nothing like this happens overnight. Keeping interest rates artificially low for the last ten years when we had good economic times was asinine. And the Fed did try to raise them in 2018 but Trump threw a fit and pressured Powell to stop. He even wanted interest rates to go negative. If the economy was doing so well, there would have been no need to keep them low. Throw in a worldwide pandemic, printing trillions of dollars by both guys (don’t forget, Trump’s last stimulus bill was passed 30 days before Biden took over, worth about $900 billion), things opening up with the roll out of Trump’s worthless vaccine, demand skyrocketing world wide and you’ve got world wide inflation. Biden hasn’t helped it but he’s definitely had help creating it. We’ve been giving money to Ukraine since 2014, nothing new. Trump said he could end this war in one day. I ask why didn’t he solve it from 2017 to 2021 instead of giving them money (or trying to withhold it). Last I heard, Russia was still in Crimea and the Donbas region during his entire presidency and the two sides were engaged in firing at one another. And to @cals point, we’ve been dumping money into Israel since the 40’s and no end to the conflicts over there. While some conservatives on this board are good with cutting Israel aid, it’s not as vocal from others like Ukraine aid being cut off is. Of course Biden’s budget is higher. He’s a Democrat. They don’t pretend to be fiscally conservative. As mentioned, Trump and the Republicans had complete control of everything for the first two years in office, then senate control the last two years. The results were yearly deficits going up, not down. Not one balanced budget or surplus. Spending was out of control even before Covid. And Republicans now control the house with a slim lead so they have some control over the purse strings but they are too paralyzed to function. And yet Biden and Trump will likely be the two main choices in 2024. We never learn.

Why is Biden's hand going through the book in the first picture? Boy I hope someone got fired for that blunder.

It's just too bad she didn't think about her actions at the end of 2020 when Rudy was vomiting hair dye from his head. Glad she finally has regrets when the writing was on the wall.

From this "Before her plea, Ellis, who lives in Florida, was defiant, posting in August on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, "The Democrats and the Fulton County DA are criminalizing the practice of law. I am resolved to trust the Lord." To this "She rose to speak after pleading guilty, fighting back tears as she said she would not have represented Trump after the 2020 election if she knew then what she knows now, claiming that she relied on lawyers with much more experience than her and failed to verify that the things they told her were true. She said she looks back on the experience with "deep remorse." "What I did not do but should have done, your honor, was to make sure that the facts the other lawyers alleged to be true were in fact true," the 38-year-old Ellis said." I guess she gave up on her trust in the Lord.

Hmmm I'm not a big fan of his phrase "You practically never heard the word." I prefer old school Trump. "Not many people know this but indicted is a word." It just sounds better in my opinion and it reminded us how much smarter Trump was than all of us and was gracious enough to share such hidden knowledge.

Excuse me sir but I believe it was a peanut butter jar. Hence the dog being there….. hoping for a lick. Wondering if that did happen though, if he liked the extra skin from cals or would have hoped for a little more of a cut steak.

My condolences to Patrick Duffy and the guy who wrote her lines on Step by Step, @Taylor's dad.

That's okay. I'm locked in at 2.875% currently. I'm good.

Agreed on the Red Sox. Not on the Dodgers. As pathetic as the Angels are, it's kind of nice seeing the Dodgers being the 90s and early 2000s Braves with all their Division titles resulting in one World Series championship in a 60 game season. As for the college campus situation and what statements I have read from Harvard, Yale, Stanford, etc., it doesn't seem to far off on what I have seen posted on AW in this thread. Maybe not the exact same but in my opinion, pretty damn close. And for the most part, I don't think any AW member should be canceled. https://thehill.com/homenews/education/4255049-colleges-professors-backlash-israel-hamas-controversy/ These opinions were there before the Hamas attack on the 7th and now it's just out there with more focus. For the record, I think the Palestinians need to rid themselves of Hamas but Israel needs to be under the microscope a lot more. Especially Netanyahu. I would not be shocked if he knew the attack was coming and let it happen so he could level Gaza.

Blacklisting seems suspiciously like cancel culture.

I think we all remember after 9/11, we were told they hate is because of our freedoms which seems really laughable in hindsight. But Bin Laden made it pretty crystal clear in 97 or 98 why he was declaring war on the U.S. along with what his stated goals were for trying to draw the U.S. into conflict. A big reason was our support for Israel and Middle East policy. If we’re going to be an ally of Israel, whatever. But that does come with consequences if Israel is going to have baggage that conflicts with the Palestinians and other Middle East countries. There’s enough blame to go around for everyone.

With assistance from Bush, Trump and Biden. It’s really a team effort.

Their fence/wall didn’t have a great day last week.

So Nick Castellanos just did that thing again…….

Santa Cruz? I think that’s what I remembering you posting one time.

I didn’t really think this should be age restricted but whatever. Gives a timeline from Saturday.

I don’t get fry sauce either. But then again, I’m not from here so I escaped the fry sauce indoctrination. To each their own.

Oh I know. I live in Utah.

Depending on the type of rhetoric, let’s remember you can be critical of Israel and not be anti-Semitic, especially being called a Nazi. Same with Islam and religion in general. No one should be above reproach.

I think he just just needs to be reprogrammed. He had a circuit short when it came to his article topics.

Meh. Gas was cheap before Trump came to office but he likes to take credit for it. Average cost of gas starting in 2015 when the oil market took a hit 2015: $2.43 2016: $2.14 2017: $2.41 2018: $2.74 2019:$2.60 2020:$2.17 Obviously covid impacted demand and sent prices plummeting. And while that was great for many Americans, let’s not forget how many in the oil industry lost their jobs and how many companies went out of business. I can name one AW poster that lost his job but I prefer not to drag him into this shit does show. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-north-america-oil-bankruptcy/wave-of-north-american-oil-and-gas-bankruptcies-to-continue-at-40-bbl-crude-report-idUSKBN24A2U1 As for oil production currently, you can’t say we aren’t producing. 2022 was the second best year on record and looks like we’re about to pass that sometime this year or next. https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=WCRFPUS2&f=W As for interest rates, those should have started being raised back in 2014 or 2015 with the economy doing well. Powell tried raising them in 2018 but a certain someone threw a fit because the stock market freaked out and told him to stop and even suggested rates go negative which is asinine in a great economy. Powell for some reason listened even though the Fed is independent. With the economy humming along, rates should have started being raised in a healthy manner to stop the economy from overheating. But they were kept in an artificially low state. And now you have one of the reasons why we are in the mess we are today with interest rates not being at the proper level for so long. Although I will say my savings accounts have been loving the interest rates so at least with that, no complaints.

Nah you just craiged yourself. But feel free to donate to his defense fund.

You’re getting old Redondo. Or Branco is hard up for material and hoping you won’t recognize he’s regurgitating cartoons.